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December 8, 2017 by Jane Gerdsen

Sharing Life Together: Southern Ohio Episcopal Service Corps

Every Thursday night a group of very different people gather around a table and share a bit of life together. They take turns cooking, setting the table, and inviting God’s presence into their midst. As they talk, laugh, share stories week after week, they are changed. Each of these young people is a member of […]

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January 6, 2016 by Praxis

Communities of Discovery

What Improv taught us about the spiritual life while we were at the Young Adult Retreat “Isn’t improv hard?” My wife asked me at breakfast, after I’d been waxing poetic about the 2015 Young Adult retreat, where my friends Barbara Allen and Bill Sabo led us in exploring the spirituality of improvisation. “Not really,” I […]

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August 28, 2015 by Jane Gerdsen

Some Thoughts on Spiders

I’m surrounded by spiders. All summer it felt like everywhere I turned I saw spiders – they were in our house at camp – massive spiders scurrying in the corners and as I sat and wrote at the desk facing the fields, I saw spiders in the windows spinning enormous webs. I found spiders in […]

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August 7, 2015 by Jane Gerdsen

Praxis Leaders Gathering 2015

Join us September 19th for a day of conversation, reflection, encouragement and good food (of course!). We will meet at the Near East House, an emerging praxis community in Columbus. This is a gathering of our creative partners – so we look forward to deeper conversation and sharing about your communities, experiments, and insights as […]

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August 3, 2015 by Karl Stevens

Who will I love, and how will I love them well?

This year, Praxis Communities are thinking and writing about the question “How do we live in relationship?”  Different individuals and communities will read this question in different ways, and nuance it to fit their own questions and understandings.  I’m most interested in romantic relationships, and so my version of the question is “Who will I love, […]

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April 25, 2014 by Jane Gerdsen

Taking the Church into the Streets

Our friend, Jason Evans, Missioner in the Diocese of Washington DC wrote a great post this week about how to take the church out into the streets.  He shared our Flash Compline movement as one example!  You can read the whole article here! Ashes-to-Go is a movement that has spread across North America in which […]